American technology companies must accept they have a role to play in national security, and that the return of Great Power competition requires them to choose sides.
On this week’s show Patrick and Adam discuss the week’s security news, including:
A US-China trade war and a global pandemic have in a few short months accelerated a drift into ‘network sovereignty’: a world in which the internet is no longer a truly open, global network.
Australia’s 2020 cyber security strategy is the latest national plan to propose that company directors be held accountable for meeting minimum information security baselines prescribed by the government.
In the absence of anything specific in the strategy document, Risky.Biz talked to some real experts on measuring cyber security maturity to suggest some ways forward.
On this week’s show Patrick and Adam discuss the week’s security news, including:
Donald Trump’s personal involvement in threats to ban TikTok is distracting from any legitimate national security concerns the video sharing app might present to the United States. What started as some half-hearted sabre rattling after he was thoroughly punk’d by TikTok teens at his Tulsa rally in late June has spiralled into a theatre of the absurd.
In the same week the EU imposed sanctions against Russian, Chinese and North Korean actors, hacking crews from all three countries were implicated in new mischief.
Soap Box is the wholly sponsored podcast series we do here at Risky.Biz. That means everyone you hear on this podcast paid to be here. In this podcast you’re going to hear my latest interview with Jerrod Chong, Yubico’s Chief Solutions Officer.
Hardware security keys like Yubikeys have come a long way, even over the last couple of years. The biggest change is that the support for hardware keys is borderline ubiquitous now. FIDO2 support is in all the major browsers. You can even use Yubikeys with Google apps on an iPhone. The plumbing is here, it’s arrived.
On this week’s show Patrick and Adam discuss the week’s security news, including:
Who needs custom malware and 0day when wins come this easy?
If it’s any consolation, the most capable infosec teams in the world are having just as much trouble dealing with the current onslaught of high severity vulnerabilities as you are.
Winnti is all at once a malware family, a group, and several groups with wildly diverging motivations. We’re at the point where we may as well scrap the name and start again.
Normally these Soap Box podcasts – which are wholly sponsored – feature vendors trying to sell you stuff. But this time we’re doing something different: an interview with two of Facebook’s most senior engineers.
On this week’s show Patrick and Adam discuss the week’s security news, including:
A critical, trivially exploitable vulnerability in the management interface of F5’s Big-IP devices is the latest in a string of nasty bugs in networking equipment critical to enterprise computing.
Like last year’s Citrix NetScaler and Pulse Secure vulnerabilities, this one is going to hurt.
This edition of the Soap Box podcast is brought to you by Proofpoint.
Today’s guest is Proofpoint’s EVP of Cybersecurity Strategy, Ryan Kalember, and the topic is business email compromise, or BEC.
BEC is a big deal, generating billions of dollars in losses every year across basically all industry verticals and levels of government. Until recently, there haven’t been many technical controls that help to mitigate it.
On this week’s show Patrick and Adam discuss the week’s security news, including:
This week’s show is brought to you by Okta. They are, of course, the identity and auth giant and one of the few sponsors we actually approached last year for 2020 because, well, they are very good at what they do. This week Marc will be joining us to talk about a privacy-related topic. The discussion is nuanced, but it’s basically about how the public perception of privacy risks has diverged from the reality/ Further, that the COVID-19 crisis and the advent of digital contact tracing apps have actually brought general concerns around digital privacy to the fore.
Three US Senators have put forward a bill that apes the powers of the UK Investigatory Powers Act and Australia’s Assistance and Access Act, while omitting many of the (albeit weak) safeguards that protect that power from being abused.
The Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act of 2020, introduced by Republican Senators Lindsay Graham, Tom Cotton and Marsha Blackburn, compels device manufacturers and digital service providers to provide access to user data when served with a warrant. It’s the Nike approach: Just do it!
On this week’s show Patrick and Adam discuss the week’s security news, including:
Technical indicators released by the Australian Government reveal that state-backed actors are among the many attackers abusing OAuth apps to gain unauthorised access to cloud accounts. Risky.Biz reckons there is more Microsoft can do to stop it.
